Xiangyang City, situated in the northwest of Hubei Province, China and the middle reaches of Han River, is located in the adjacent hub of Hubei Province, Henan Province, Chongqing City and Shaanxi Province, with superior location, developed transportation and outstanding economic and strategic position.Now, as a central city in the Han River Basin supported by the State Council, Xiangyang is a sub-central city in the province promoted by the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Hubei Provincial People's Government. Xiangyang, with a territory area of 19,700 square kilometers and a permanent population of 5.271 million, has jurisdiction over 3 counties, 3 cities, 3 districts and 3 development zones, and is an important node city of the Tea Horse Road and the ancient Silk Road.

Xiangyang, with a long history and profound culture, has a history of more than 2,800 years, which has nurtured Chu culture, Hanshui culture and Three Kingdoms culture. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, the wisdom holy of China, Meng Haoran, a great poet in Tang Dynasty and Mi Fu, a great calligrapher in Northern Song Dynasty, and many other celebrities have written many historical legends and masterpieces in Xiangyang. Xiangyang has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times and is known as the “first city in China.” Its history can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. As a military stronghold, Xiangyang has repeatedly become a regional political center and a military stronghold in history. With famous attractions such as the Xiangyang Ancient City Wall, the Gulongzhong Scenic Area, and the Migong Temple, Xiangyang has a rich and diverse cultural heritage. The Xiangyang Ancient City Wall is one of the top ten best-preserved in China, with a moat that is 250 meters wide at its widest point, making it one of the widest moats in Asia. Gulongzhong was the place where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion and has now become a famous tourist destination. Xiangyang also holds an important position in literary works. More than 4，000 poems in Poems of the Tang Dynasty mention Xiangyang. For example, Meng Haoran, the Tang poet, sang, “This spring morning in bed I’m lying, not to awake till birds are crying.” Xiangyang’s historical stories and cultural legends, including Bian He Presents the Jade and Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage, also provide rich materials for literary creation and are popular among the people.

Xiangyang has obvious advantages as a national comprehensive transportation hub. Xiangyang Airport has opened 28 routes, reaching 37 cities, forming a 1.5-hour flight circle. Xiangyang has Wuhan-Shiyan High-speed Railway, Zhengzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway, Hohhot-Nanning High-speed Railway and Wuhan-Xi’an High-speed Railway, initially forming a Union Jack high-speed rail hub. With the opening of high-speed trains from Xiangyang to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it can now reach 53 cities across the country and form a “four-hour traffic circle” in China, five CHINA RAILWAY Express and four rail-sea intermodal lines in Xiangyang have been operating normally.

The educational environment in Xiangyang is of high quality. It has built a modern national education system from pre-school education to undergraduate and postgraduate education. There are 1,714 schools at all levels, including 5 universities, 27 secondary vocational schools, 4 technical schools, 42 ordinary high schools, 206 junior high schools, 471 primary schools, 7 special education schools and 952 kindergartens. There are 26 provincial and municipal demonstration high-quality high schools in Xiangyang. 28 secondary vocational colleges have established stable school-enterprise cooperation relations with more than 560 enterprises inside and outside the city. Hubei University of Arts and Science, a local university, has been accelerated to become an application-oriented comprehensive university. The Industrial Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiangyang Campus of Huazhong Agricultural University and Xiangyang Demonstration Zone for the Reform of Professional Degree Postgraduate Training Mode of Wuhan University of Technology have been established in Xiangyang.

Xiangyang has the most abundant medical resources, with 3,499 health institutions, including 242 hospitals, health centers and community health service centers, 9 centers for disease control (epidemic prevention stations) and 8 maternal and child health centers. Health institutions have/equip 40,700 beds and 45,800 staff.

The carrying capacity of Xiangyang is perfect. It has 3 national development zones, 11 provincial development zones, 20 characteristic industrial parks and 5 fine chemical industrial parks. With the approval of Xiangyang Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone and Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the advantages of “four zones overlapping” of High-tech Zone, Free Trade Zone, Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone have gradually emerged, which has become a new business card for the central region of China to open to the outside world.

Xiangyang has a complete industrial system. As an old industrial base in China, a national demonstration base of new industrialized industries and a pilot city of a national smart city, Xiangyang occupies 37 of 41 industrial categories, forming a modern industrial system with new energy automobile industry as the leader and high-end equipment manufacturing, electronic information, medicine and chemical industry, new energy and new materials, intensive processing of agricultural products and modern service industry as the pillars. Xiangyang has 14 listed companies, and has gathered a number of well-known multinational companies and Fortune 500 companies such as Dongfeng, Nissan, Huawei, Siemens, JD.COM and Magna.

For the automobile industry, Xiangyang is a national automobile manufacturing base, a national automobile power and parts industry base, an automobile industry cluster in China, and one of the top ten automobile industry cities in China. It has many brands, such as the national new industrialization (new energy vehicle) industrial demonstration base, the national new energy vehicle demonstration and promotion city, the regional brand building demonstration area of the automobile industry cluster, the national automobile quality supervision and inspection center, the national power battery quality supervision and inspection center, and the national intelligent networked automobile supervision and inspection center. It has 360 automobile and parts enterprises above designated size, with an annual vehicle output of nearly 400,000 vehicles. For equipment manufacturing, Xiangyang has formed a high-end equipment manufacturing industry represented by intelligent equipment, rail transit and aerospace. It has a characteristic equipment manufacturing industry represented by safety (emergency) equipment and agricultural machinery equipment, with a solid foundation, complete categories and strong supporting capacity. Xiangyang's rail transit industry has a solid foundation, and the production capacity of rail transit maintenance equipment ranks first in the country and third in the world. For electronic information, Xiangyang has the computing capacity of 5,000 cabinets and 50,000 servers, and the maximum carrying capacity of the servers can reach 150,000, making it the largest data center gathering area in the central region. Xiangyang has 50 production supporting enterprises in the handheld terminal industry, basically realizing the full coverage of the mobile phone industry chain, and the consumer electronics industry has gradually formed an industrial pattern in which key enterprises and supporting enterprises promote and integrate each other. For biomedicine, Xiangyang has formed a relatively complete pharmaceutical production system of raw materials, preparations, Chinese patent medicines, Chinese herbal pieces, pharmaceutical intermediates and other varieties. There are 24 pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises above designated size in Xiangyang, with the largest variety of over-the-counter drugs in the province, and the largest small injection production base in the province has been built. For new energy and new materials, Xiangyang, relying on solid industrial foundation and rich mineral resources, has gradually formed an industrial system of new energy and new materials with clean energy, metal structural materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, fibers and composite materials as the mainstay. Xiangyang is in the leading position in China in the fields of adhesives, optical materials, rim steel, alkali-resistant glass fiber and UHV transmission and transformation insulators, and has cultivated a number of invisible champion enterprises and core products.

“Xiangyang has unique scenery”, and the beautiful Xiangyang welcomes you!